a little bit about what romney's strategy is thus far? i mean, we know what it's sort of been thus far, but i feel like this is part and parcel of the guy with the sort of expensive chocolate shoes that keep getting his foot in his mouth. wow, so many metaphors there. romney can't seem to get away from this sort of wooden, you know, privileged, romney speak, and this would seem to be reflective of that. >> keep in mind, i was at that briefing yesterday where they were laying this out. keep in mind, one of his central challenges has been convincing the party to get behind him and trying to push these rivals of his out of the race. this is not necessarily a picture of the entirety of the romney campaign, but it is the argument that they're going to present going forward, as they try to convince everyone in washington that has still stayed on the sidelines, all of those people who, you know, we still talk about as potentially jumping in, because he hasn't been the, you know, most compelling candidate, to get off the sidelines and to say, listen, it's time to, you know -- >> pony up! and i